[Gllug] Missing children from Soham

[Gordon Joly]

At 22:26 +0100 2002-08-10, Jason Clifford wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Jim Bailey wrote:
>
>>  Computer forensics is not something that is known in depth by people on
>>  list.  I did read in the Indy this morning however that they got the
>>  team in who nailed Paul Francis Gadd, and they say they got some very
>>  interesting leads.
>
>And this evening they stated that the girls did not engage in contact
>likely to be related to their disappearance.
>
>The whole Internet angle was very tabloid.
>
>In my view such tangents are not at all helpful as they serve only to
>divert attention from the only valid task right now which is to try and
>find the girls.
>
>Jason
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Vogon was the company mentioned.... Scotch mist and red herring, and 
good "stories" for the tabloids....

Paul Gadd took a shitload of child pr0n into PC World and said "do 
not look at any files".... and PC Plod got their man (with help from 
Vogon).


<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2185950.stm>

"They have been working with a psychological profile of the 
kidnapper, who they believe is probably local."


<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2182213.stm>

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2185474.stm>


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Saturday, 10 August, 2002, 18:47 GMT 19:47 UK
New anti-paedophile laws considered
[Missing girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells]
The missing girls went online but not to a chatroom
New legislation is being considered by the government to protect 
children from paedophiles who try to contact them in person, on the 
phone or via the internet.

The proposals would prevent sex offenders making contact with 
children to exploit them.

It follows the disappearance of 10-year-old Cambridgeshire 
schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, whom police believe have 
been abducted.


Once contact is made in a chatroom, it escalates very quickly to a 
mobile phone, text messaging and eventually, face-to-face contact

Chris Atkins, NSPCC
It is known the girls were using the internet an hour before they went missing.

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Errr..... did they download the latest kernel sources?

Or perhaps they uploaded some bug fixes?

HM Government will bring some more legislation, just in case.

The NSPCC were recently in the news as well....


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Charity or Dark Propaganda?

The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 
- a UK charity) spends more on propaganda (£38m last year) than on 
children's services (£28m) - according to a BBC report. In contrast, 
other charities, eg the Children's Society and Barnado's, spend 
nearly 80% of their budgets on children's services.

The NSPCC claimed the £38 million was spent on "raising public 
awareness of child cruelty". Many media commentators, however, argue 
that TV and newspapers are already saturated with coverage of 
child-abuse. (One recent paedophile case attracted media attention 
for weeks, leading to angry mobs attacking the homes of suspected 
paedophiles).

UK government figures show very low rates of child murder by 
strangers - averaging only seven per year - yet the NSPCC has been 
busy raising fear and paranoia with its aggressive propaganda blitz 
on the media, including expensive TV and newspaper ads.

The NSPCC undoubtedly does good work for children. But maybe it 
should leave fear-inducing, rabble-rousing "black propaganda" to the 
likes of MI5 and the CIA.


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Don't believe the hype...

Gordo

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